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Join UsLookism: Beauty still trumps brains in too many workplaces
Christopher Warhurst and Dennis Nickson /
Economics of Education Review
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Beauty Premiums Among Academics
Manchester City star Sergio Aguero widely criticized for putting his hand on the shoulder of a female official
Ben Church /
CNN
Aguero confronted the official before grabbing her on the upper shoulder, close to her neck. Massey-Ellis shrugged Aguero off before he jogged away and the game continued. There were no formal consequences for Aguero during the match, but his behavior was caught by television cameras and widely shared on social media.
French Soccer Roiled by Claims of Toxic Workplace Culture
Tariq Panja and Romain Molina /
The New York Times
Celebrated for its successes on the field, France’s soccer federation hired a consultant to address complaints about top executives. He heard accusations of bullying, misbehavior and sexism.
A shadowy AI service has transformed thousands of women’s photos into fake nudes: “Make fantasy a reality”
Drew Harwell /
The Washington Post
An artificial-intelligence service freely available on the Web has been used to transform more than 100,000 women’s images into nude photos without the women’s knowledge or consent, triggering fears of a new wave of damaging “deepfakes” that could be used for harassment or blackmail.
Racist trolls hijacked a Zoom town hall to hurl slurs at Connecticut’s first Black congresswoman
Katie Shepherd /
The Washington Post
“I am tired, completely and utterly tired. I am not ok that this happened. I am not ok, that this is not the first time this has happened in my life or that I’ve had to explain that this happens.”
Forced to undergo genital exams in colonial India
Soutik Biswas /
BBC
Under the colonial Contagious Diseases Act, designed to contain the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, sex workers had to "register themselves at police stations, get medically examined and surveilled".